Speech communications instructor Rob Ruiz was recently named director of forensics at the University of La Verne.

About 50 students, staff and faculty attended the event titled “Linguistic Pluralism and Education in Spain: Past and Present” at noon Monday, in the President’s Dining Room.

Psi Chi, the international psychology honors society at the University of La Verne, held a stress relief event on Wednesday afternoon in the University Mall to help students have fun and forget about the stress of the finals.

With the school year coming to an end, the communications department is already gearing up for fall 2011 – preparing new leaders for its media outlets the Campus Times, La Verne Magazine and LeoFM.

On Tuesday afternoon, director of the Learning Enhancement Center, Corrine Hinton, gave a workshop in the Campus Center on how to survive finals.

Three women from Brazil, who are currently students at the University of La Verne, shared their American experience with the La Verne community on Monday.

Campus and community news for the week of May 20, 2011.

The state legislature has not yet cut funding from the Cal Grants program, but with the legislature looking to trim public schools, California State Universities and other institutions in the state, it is certainly in danger.

Administrators’ recent decision to change the retirement plan for all University employees is expected to be reversed, in light of strong opposition by faculty, who objected to the fact that such a decision was made without their consultation.

Associate professors of biology Jerome Garcia and Kathleen Weaver shared their research on DNA in a lecture Monday in the President’s Dining Room.